Compensation for Injured Workers in the 21st Century An Academic Symposium September 23, 2016 Workers’ compensation systems arose as one of the great political compromises of the Progressive Era: workers injured on the job gave up the right to sue Read More
February 27, 2015 The American Law Institute’s “Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance” aimed, as former Director Lance Liebman said, to seek “the efficient and fair rules that should govern the insurer/insured relationship.” The project sparked spirited debate, and Read More
The Center for Risk and Responsibility and the Institute for Professional Development Friday, March 1, 2013 Insurance policies embody a tension between bundling related risks and fragmenting risk through exclusions, narrow definitions, and other limitations. Policyholders benefit from bundling risk Read More
The ultimate test of an insurance policy comes when a claim is filed. An effective and fair process for investigating, evaluating, paying, and defending claims is at the core of the relationship between an insurer and a policyholder. In both Read More
A conference on The Protection Gap in Property Insurance Friday, March 29, 2019 Rutgers Law School, Camden, New Jersey The protection gap is the difference between losses that are insured and losses that could or should be insured. The Rutgers Read More
Interpretation is simultaneously one of the most important and most peculiar areas of contract law and insurance law. Important, because it is hugely important in commercial litigation in general and insurance litigation in particular. Peculiar, because there are well-developed but Read More
The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility is hosting a conference on The American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance. The conference will be held Friday, February 27, 2015, at Rutgers Law School?Camden. The Restatement project aims, as Director Lance Read More
